So the actual story here is that I was both Lazy and SHODAN. I'd originally asked Omega to render me dead so I could watch, but when I realized that Omega's game was nowhere near crazy enough I figured I'd simply kill him off take over his game and run game-inside-a-game silliness. I am very amused ...

Excellent, that brings us to ten. I have plans to handle that (less than ten I was still scratching my head for plans on how to deal with, but I'm sure I would've figured out something). Also, I will note: Despite the obvious thematic nature of infectious vampires, this is NOT a conversion game. Mig...

For those unfamiliar with the show/novels, I'm just using it as light window dressing for the theme. Distilled down from the source material: -) The key concept to know is that Strigoi are vampires. They spread their infections via their bite or via contact with their bodily fluids. If left alive, t...

In a city overrun by infectious vampires known as Strigoi , you are a band of humans struggling to survive in a world suddenly full of hostility and paranoia. On your last several scavenging missions, you've run into far-too-convenient patrols of Strigoi and you've lost a number of dear friends from...

An edit lock (where edits can't be done, or can't be done after a certain time window) could be handled by creating an UnVote or Retract tag similar to the Vote tag and requiring people to use it when retracting their vote.

With regards to #1/#2, I think (maybe Omega or another Admin can confirm?) that the forum can be made to only accept edits to posts for X minutes after the post is made (15? 20?), which might be a way to allow a reasonable window for changes without allowing #1 to occur. Admins would have to remembe...

My answers: 1: Disallow 2: ? 3: Disallow 4: Disallow As much fun as #1 and #3 have been in the past, they both accomplish something that would be impossible if we were playing with a traditional Day/Night cycle. Namely, it allows a Seer to claim and reveal without the wolves having a chance to respo...

So, my latest game raised some interesting questions around in-game communication methods. I wanted to open up a discussion thread so we could chat about them and maybe come to a consensus about where the line should be drawn. Some questions to get the ball rolling: 1) Should we disallow adding cont...

Day of the Tentacle Remastered is free as part of this month's Twitch Prime (part of Amazon Prime) loot. If for some crazy reason you don't already own Day of the Tentacle, GO GET IT RIGHT NOW IT'S FREE OMG.

Part of me is a little disappointed that you're not outfitting a cargo container and planning to ship yourself around the world in luxury, but I must admit it still sounds pretty neat. You'd better have stories to tell after that, DOM!

That's pretty awful. He agreed on the record and then secretly changed his mind and let them go ahead? I can't even imagine how that happens in a production scenario. Without him being fired for it, I mean. Yeah, it's pretty bad. We're pretty desperate for bodies at this point, so I think the worst...

Since you asked... The new global sysadmin/networking manager where I work is learning a set of profound lessons this week. Angry Story Time! A week ago: Networking Lead: This border-switch replacement will be only be 2 minutes of downtime, tops! Customer Support has ok'd it happening without a main...

Day 0 is up, everyone up to this point should have access to it. Note that I have not assigned roles yet. Rules will get filled out later this afternoon. Cutoff for signups will be around 9pm Eastern or so. Sending a final email blast momentarily. You should be able to see just the day thread/forum ...

Day 1 scheduled to start on Monday, 7/24. EOD will be 10pm Eastern. EOD will operate slightly different than the standard 24 hour weekday/48 hour weekend days. At end of a traditional day if everyone has voted we will move on to the next game day. If there are ANY missing votes for ANY reason (inclu...

September, 2013: Raymond "Red" Reddington walks into the lobby of FBI headquarters in Washingon, DC and turns himself in. A former Naval Intelligence officer and the FBI's #1 Most Wanted Fugitive, Reddington has been rogue and operating in the criminal underworld for over 20 years, eluding...

I found No Man's Sky to be ultimately rather boring at Launch time. On Bartle's taxonomy It's an extremely explorer-heavy, with a dash of Achiever, with zero Killer/Socializer appeal. I found the overall gameplay and procedural generation to ultimately be very shallow, although still an impressive t...

Yeah. The collectible market is, at its core, a vastly different beast than a proper "games" store, and is in fact one of the ways that "games" stores can keep themselves afloat financially; using the actual games as loss/low-margin leaders to get people interested/hooked on the ...

I agree with all the points Gungnir and DOM raise, but will go slightly further: Game stores (whether RPG, Board, or Both) are *ridiculously* thin margin business. If you're at all worried about the financial risk (both in the riskiness of the business sense as well as your own personal/family finan...

In. Your thread at Ars points to your old game with Star vs. the Forces of Evil. I thought it was a time traveling game. SvtFE was actually *my* old game, so this is actually a Quantum Leap-style time-travelling game. DOM must leap from game to game, putting right the mistakes other GMs have made a...